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1310 Preparation and spinning of textile fibres

This class includes preparatory operations on textile fibres and the spinning of textile fibres. This can be done from varying raw materials, whether new or recycled textile materials (for example, silk, cotton, wool, vegetable or man-made fibres, paper cellulose-based fibres such as wood or straw).

This class also includes:

  • manufacture of paper yarn

This class excludes:

  • preparatory operations carried out in combination with agriculture, see division 01

  • retting of plants bearing vegetable textile fibres (jute, flax, coir, etc.), not associated with the growing of vegetable textile fibres, see 016300

  • cotton ginning, see 016300

  • manufacture of synthetic or artificial fibres and tows, manufacture of single yarns (including high-tenacity yarn and yarn for carpets) of synthetic or artificial fibres, see 206000

  • manufacture of glass fibres, see 231400

  • processing of textile waste into secondary raw materials, see 382100

  • 13.10.1 Wool grease
  • 13.10.10 Wool grease

    This subcategory also includes:

    • lanolin
  • 13.10.2 Natural textile fibres prepared for spinning
  • 13.10.21 Raw silk (not thrown)
  • 13.10.22 Wool, degreased or carbonised, not carded or combed
  • 13.10.23 Noils of wool or of fine animal hair
  • 13.10.24 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed
  • 13.10.25 Cotton, carded or combed
  • 13.10.26 Jute and other textile bast fibres, processed but not spun

    This subcategory excludes:

    • flax, true hemp and ramie textile fibres, see 13.10.27
  • 13.10.27 Other vegetable textile fibres, processed but not spun

    This subcategory includes:

    • flax, hemp, ramie, sisal, coconut, abaca etc., processed but not spun
  • 13.10.3 Man-made textile staple fibres processed for spinning
  • 13.10.31 Synthetic staple fibres, carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning
  • 13.10.32 Artificial staple fibres, carded, combed or otherwise processed for spinning
  • 13.10.4 Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste
  • 13.10.40 Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste

    This subcategory includes:

    • silk yarn (incl. yarn spun from silk waste) not put up for retail sale

    This subcategory excludes:

    • silk waste, see 38.11.56
  • 13.10.5 Yarn of wool put up or not put up for retail store; yarn of fine or coarse animal hair or of horse hair
  • 13.10.50 Yarn of wool put up or not put up for retail store; yarn of fine or coarse animal hair or of horse hair
  • 13.10.6 Cotton yarn; cotton sewing thread
  • 13.10.61 Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread)

    This subcategory includes:

    • cotton yarns not put up for retail sale

    This subcategory excludes:

    • sewing yarns, put up for retail sale, of cotton, see 13.10.62
  • 13.10.62 Cotton sewing thread
  • 13.10.7 Yarn of vegetable textile fibres other than cotton; paper yarn

    This category also includes:

    • yarn of flax, jute, coir and true hemp
  • 13.10.71 Flax yarn

    This subcategory includes:

    • flax yarn not put up for retail sale
  • 13.10.72 Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres; yarn of other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn
  • 13.10.8 Textile yarn and thread of man-made filaments or staple fibres
  • 13.10.81 Yarn of man-made filaments, multiple or cabled (other than sewing thread, high tenacity yarn of polyamides, polyesters or viscose rayon), not put up for retail sale; man-made filament yarn (other than sewing thread) put up for retail sale
  • 13.10.82 Yarn other than sewing thread of synthetic staple fibres, containing => 85% by weight of such fibres
  • 13.10.83 Yarn (other than sewing thread) of synthetic staple fibres, containing < 85% by weight of such fibres
  • 13.10.84 Yarn (other than sewing thread) of artificial staple fibres
  • 13.10.85 Sewing thread and yarn of artificial and synthetic filaments and fibres
  • 13.10.9 Garnetted stock; preparation services of natural textile fibres; sub-contracted operations as part of manufacturing of textile yarn and thread
  • 13.10.91 Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair
  • 13.10.92 Garnetted stock and other cotton waste
  • 13.10.93 Preparation services of natural textile fibres

    This subcategory includes:

    • washing, degreasing, carding, combing wool or cotton, scutching linen
  • 13.10.99 Sub-contracted operations as part of manufacturing of textile yarn and thread